Ernest Berk

The UK debut of Madonna wasn’t exactly the triumph you might expect. We jump back to a cold January night in 1984 and a live broadcast from Manchester’s HaÇienda for the full tale

We rewind to 1983 and find ourselves in a time when one record player seemed ample. And then along comes DJ godhead Greg Wilson and he’s live on the telly with two record players and they’re called “turntables”. Whatever next?

Anyone else wondered what’d happen if we set the dial on the Electronic Sound time machine to the future? Welcome to the 22nd century where Brian Eno has some explaining to do…

Global Communication’s Tom Middleton remembers meeting a teenage Richard D James, who looked like a member of Bros and was conducting “binaural neuroscience experiments” in his bedroom

In 1995, a new music magazine catapulted underground electronic music into the mainstream. To mark 20 years since the first issue of MUZIK, we track down its founders to tell the full story (although it wasn’t that hard to find them)